 | Missions - 1807 - 672 pages
...persuade themselves that it is a falsehood. The apostle Peter tells us, that there should come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, " Where is the promise of his coming ?" This prediction has been exactly fulfilled, and has received a remarkable accomplishment... | |
 | Missions - 1802 - 596 pages
...duration. The effect of these things upon the ungodly, was foretold by Peter : " There shall come in the last days, scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promisé of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, nil things continue as they were from the... | |
 | 310 pages
...usurper, sm&put all enemies under his feet. ' What saith the Scripture ?' ' There shall come in the LAST days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers foil asleep, all things continue as from the beginning of the creation.'... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...JBut this very unbelief fulfils the Scriptures. St. Peter says, • In the last days there shall be scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - Bible - 1801 - 366 pages
...commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour — knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days, scoffers walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming." As to the consolation that is to be afforded to the doubting inquirer, it can never arise... | |
 | 1828
...third chapter of the second epistle of St. Peter: " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? " — P. 103. Is this, then, the great event to which the creation is supposed to look forward,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1805 - 566 pages
...regard those "scoffers," who, according to the prediction of the apostle, are " come in these last days, walking after their " own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of " his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all " things continue as they were from the beginning "... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Sermons, American - 1805 - 398 pages
...preparation for an event so infinitely momentous. " There will come in the last days scoffers, \valk" ing after their own lusts, and saying Where is the " promise of his coming ; for since the fathers fell " asleep all things continue as they were from the " beginning... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was."* " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ; for, since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 516 pages
...and '.he greatest fulfilment, of 2 Pet. Hi. 3, 4. " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ? For, since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of... | |
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Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the... 
